The Heroes of the Greeks

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Page 210festival otsynoikia was held, i.e. the collection of the people who lived scattered
about the coastal district known as Attica into one great community. This
achievement was accredited to Kekrops,336 and it was also said that he named
the ...

Page 225Attica.477 They were Pallas and his fifty sons, who hoped to rule the whole
country after Aigeus' death. Their home was in Pallene, on the southern declivity
of Pentelikon, and they were a savage giant/people.478 Their father Pallas was ...

Page 291It is said that the hero Pteleon, founder of Ptelea, 'Elmsby', in Attica, seduced her
with the gift of this headband. Kephalos caught her making love to the stranger. In
another account, Kephalos concealed himself by assuming the shape of the ...